Scripps Gets $20M to Speed Research to Patients
SAN DIEGO — The National Institutes of Health has given $20 million to a joint program of Scripps Health and The Scripps Research Institute to speed bringing biomedical research to patients.
Scripps Translational Science Institute, the joint program, is one of 14 research centers to receive a Clinical and Translational Science Award grant this year.
In a statement announcing the award, Scripps said Thursday that STSI is the only Southern California winner of the grant to date in Southern California.
The science institute seeks to meld the clinical expertise of Scripps Health and its hospitals with the biomedical prowess of The Scripps Research Institute. The institute is putting special emphasis on the fields of genomics, stem cells and wireless technology, Eric Topol, director of the institute, said.
Topol is a noted cardiologist and influential reseacher. He was hired by Scripps in 2006 to head its program in genomics, the study of genes and their function.
Before coming to Scripps, Topol was a founder and provost of the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University and Chief Academic Officer of the Cleveland Clinic.
The science institute’s partners also include several noted local scientific institutions: The Neurosciences Institute, Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, Burnham Institute for Medical Research, San Diego Supercomputer Center, The Salk Institute, and San Diego State University. Partners from outside San Diego are the J. Craig Venter Institute, based in Rockville, Md., with a branch in La Jolla, and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
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